Heavy metallic d-beat, mixing Broken Bones,
Discharge, Venom and other classics. Features all
of Divisions switching some instruments up and
adding D. Vassalotti (of previous Vinyl Rites
fame) on drums. Members pedigree also include all
great Tampa bands of the last few years, Cult
Ritual, Horrid Cross, etc. All copies on black
vinyl with large Crass-style poster cover.

David has been cutting his teeth for 10 years in
various bands around the Tampa area. Most recently
he's been half of MERCHANDISE and a quarter of
NEON BLUD, before that he was one of the primary
song writers in CULT RITUAL, and all this time he
has had 5+ other projects on deck. Very rarely do
we drop the ex-members card at VINYL RITES, but
having that kind of musical pedigree is pretty
unbeatable. His first solo LP is wildly different
from the aforementioned groups, although it shares
some of the bedroom sensibilities that MERCHANDISE
espouses so well. Luckily for all of us, great
song writing transcends genre and with BOOK OF
GHOSTS he explores more of the Creation Records
and 4AD back catalog. His musical hombre ZZ
compares it to FELT and TRANS era NEIL YOUNG. It
seamlessly goes from intensely personal
singer-songwriter numbers to huge and lush
shoe-gazing darkness, from NEW ORDER pop to THIS
MORTAL COIL downers. Not only our favorite release
on VINYL RITES yet, but it's also the most
hauntingly beautiful recordings we've heard in years.

In the wake of the the newest middle east conflict
in 2002, Dark
Lion erupted in Pensacola, FL, a poor Navy town.
Dark Lion's
lyrics and live show were so full of contempt and
violence, so full
of the frantic energy that they felt at the time.
With the war,
siblings joining the army, people in jail all the
time and the
basic, deep hatred you feel when you are young as
the backdrop,
they wrote 6 songs of no-wave meets riot grrl
punk, but I'm not
sure they had any interest in genre. The demo went
basically
unheard, sold on cassette and CD-R on their one
and only tour,
despite being a completely uncompromising,
original and
dangerous punk recording. Few bands are as
representative of a
time in the way Dark Lion were, Born Against and
Bikini Kill come
to mind. Musically they are somewhere between
Teenage Jesus
and Nog Watt, but all their own. RIP Dark Lion,
long live Dark
Lion.

The definitive statement so far from DF, culling influence from
early Revolution Summer bands and mixing it with a strong
affinity for 90's acts like BORN AGAINST and HAIL MARY. A wall
of noise with some melody buried somewhere deep down. (Folks
from Religious As Fuck/Assholeparade!)

It is incredibly rare in a city like Gainesville, which has such a
strong musical reputation, that a young band does something so
utterly perfect and their own that everyone loses their mind
when they hear it. Our best new export, somewhere between
early SONIC YOUTH, riot grrl and Steve Albini.

The A side, "M. Dumptruck", is a heavy nod to
fellow Floridians HARRY PUSSY, with harsh noise, a
heavy dance beat and the debut of drummer Vivienne
Rohan's incredible vocals. The B side, "Gay
Goters", is a six minute guitar driven dirge
similar to DAZZLING KILLMEN and other noise
rocking punk. More extreme, harsher, rawer and
more violent then the previous recordings, this is
the best Cokeheads offering yet.

Foreign Objects blast through eight songs of
upbeat punk,
somewhere between Dangerhouse, '77 pogo, riot grrl
and early
post-punk. They get compared to Wire and Bikini
Kill a lot, I hear
more Electric Deads and X. Members of AMPERE and
LIBYANS.

The second pressing of Vinyl Rites house favorite,
Wanker War. Intense, violent and uncompromising
noise punk with super fast drumming and a thick
recording. Decipherable songs under walls of
noise, not unlike greats FRIGORA and GLOOM, but
with a bleaker and more apocalyptic outlook.

Massive speed fueled punk madness from
Gainesville, FL! Influenced by Japanese killers
FRAMTID, Mauser is drum-focused and driving, with
simple and brutal punk riffs covered in
distortion. On their first ep, END OF THE LINE,
they played a couple mid-tempo rockers, but this
is mostly straight forward hardcore punk noise!
They set themselves aside from most of the crappy
noise punk coming out of the US by actually being
able to write great songs and having an incredibly
clear, powerful and harsh recording.

Certain cities make for incubators of specific
kinds of music and Tampa, like Detroit, makes for
ugly music. NAZI DUST is a hardcore punk band
pulling from the nastier moments of 80's Boston
hardcore, mostly SIEGE and SSD. Their recording is
raw, their drums are pounding, their guitar and
bass are buzzsaws of treble and distortion and the
vocals are spit with an unreal amount of venom.
Violent music from young men in a violent city.

Two new songs of dark and melodic punk done right.
Like later gloomy Damned mixed with good early
Damned, some Wipers, and tons of texture and
layers to the songs. Their LP on Deranged was one
of our favorites from last year and while this
record is similar, the guitars are slightly
cleaner while the whole recording is a little
rawer. It feels nostalgic while being new, and I
couldnï¿½t be more excited to have a hand in this one.

Finally, the idiot genius that is the ST. DAD long
player is unleashed on this stupid fucking world.
These vocals are the snottiest, most crazed thing
put to tape in a long time. The songs are always
on the brink of falling apart, like all good early
punk and hardcore was. It sounds like THE
CRUCIFUCKS recorded in a bedroom if the bedroom
was in a cave. No poser shit here, just 4 legit
weirdos that couldn't even scan their photos in
for the layout correctly. The band has been broken
up for a while but all 3 labels involved (Moon
Machination, 16oh, and Vinyl Rites) knew it had to
become part of our reality. You're welcome, world,
you probably didn't ask for it.